Millions of older workers with health conditions face years of financial uncertainty before retirement because of a substantial drop in employment rates as they enter the final third of their working lives, this evidence review finds.
Widely-held ageist assumptions underestimating the value and capacity of older workers, difficulties accessing reasonable adjustments to stay in work and less effective employment support for older age groups means many are ending working lives long before they are ready to.
We're calling for an end to the current age-neutral approaches to employment support that have largely not worked, and have instead stoked imbalance and unfairness.
This report is based on a comprehensive review of the literature on health, work and older age, with a particular focus on the drivers behind and interventions to tackle health-related worklessness among people aged 50 and over.
